مومجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From موم (mum, “candle”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

مومجی • (mumcu)

1. chandler, maker or seller of candles
2. (formerly) matchlock-man, especially when employed as a bodyguard

Descendants

• Turkish: mumcu
• → Armenian: մոմջի (momǰi)
• → Romanian: mungiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mum”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3303
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مومجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1250
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cerarius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 170
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مومجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 5037–5038
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مومجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2037